Program Information

Overview

Electrocardiography is a comprehensive clinically based DVD activity certified for CME credit including 21 hours of lectures addressing and divided into the following topics:

1. Introduction
2. The History of the 12-lead Electrocardiogram
3. What information can be derived from an electrocardiogram?
4. The Cardiac Conduction System – Anatomical and Functional Review
5. The 12-lead Electrocardiogram Format
6. The 12-lead Electrocardiogram Interpretation Approach
7. Cardiac Rhythms
8. Conduction Abnormalities
9. P Wave Morphology
10. QRS Complex Morphology
11. Myocardial Infarction Patterns
12. ST Segment and U Wave Morphology
13. T Wave Morphology
14. Pacemaker Rhythms
15. Specific Cardiac Diagnoses
16. Electrocardiogram Case Study Review Session – 200 Case Studies Included
17. CME Test – 60 Case Studies with multiple choice questions available for submission

Faculty

Curtis M. Rimmerman, MD, FACC Gus P. Karos Chair in Clinical Cardiovascular Medicine Department of Cardiovascular Medicine Heart and Vascular Institute Cleveland Clinic

Objectives

Upon completion of this activity, the participant will be able to:

• Delineate why an electrocardiogram remains an integral clinical test including the abundance of diagnostic information available, dependent upon the expertise of the interpreter
  
• Provide a comprehensive review of the electrocardiogram format and to introduce a standardized interpretation approach
  
• Utilize clinical examples, to comprehensively review the broad range of heart rhythm abnormalities encountered in clinical practice
  
• Present and differentiate atrial, atrio-ventricular and ventricular conduction abnormalities
  
• Review both normal and abnormal P wave and QRS complex morphologies, explaining why the electrocardiogram demonstrates a specific pattern
  
• Consider all possible myocardial infarction patterns, spanning each coronary artery territory and contiguous territories, including both common and less common examples
  
• Distinguish between the normal and abnormal ST segment, U wave and T wave morphologies in both health and disease
  
• Review through clinical examples both normal and abnormal pacemaker rhythms
  
• Review specific cardiac diagnoses and delineate representative electrocardiographic criteria
  

Accreditation

The Cleveland Clinic Foundation Center for Continuing Education is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The Cleveland Clinic Foundation Center for Continuing Education designates this educational activity for a maximum of 21 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Participants claiming CME credit from this activity may submit the credit hours to the American Osteopathic Association Council on Continuing Medical Education for Category 2 credit.

Date of original release: May 1, 2010
Date of credit termination: August 31, 2012

Credit is obtained upon successful completion of an activity posttest and evaluation, as well as payment of a $30 processing fee.

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